Trinity Church, at 74 Trinity Place in New York City, is a historic full
service parish church in the Episcopal Diocese of New York. Trinity Church is
located at the intersection of Broadway and Wall Street in downtown Manhattan.

St. Paul's Chapel, part of the Parish of Trinity Church, is the oldest
public building in continuous use in New York City.
Trinity Episcopal Church in Fishkill, New York was started in 1756 with
the missionary assistance of Trinity Church.
Photo of Trinity Church and the schoolhouse of Trinity School (c. 17??).
At the time of its completion, in 1846, its 281-foot spire and cross was
the highest point in New York until being surpassed in 1890 by the New York
World Building.
On July 9, 1976, the church was visited by Queen Elizabeth II of the
United Kingdom, and she was presented with a symbolic "back rent" of 279
peppercorns.
Since 1993, Trinity church has been the location which the High School
of Economics and Finance holds their senior graduation ceremonies. The school is
located on Trinity Place (a few blocks away from the church).

Built of Manhattan mica-schist with brownstone
quoins, St. Paul's has the classical portico, boxy proportions and domestic
details that are characteristic of Georgian churches such as James Gibbs'
London church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, after which it was modelled. Its
octagonal tower rises from a square base and is topped by a replica of the
Choragic Monument of Lysicrates (c. 335 BC).

St. Paul's Chapel, at 209 Broadway, is an Episcopal chapel located on
Church Street between Fulton and Vesey Streets, opposite the east side of the
World Trade Center site in lower Manhattan in New York City.
A chapel of the Parish of Trinity Church, St. Paul's was built on land
granted by Queen Anne of Great Britain, and Andrew Gautier served as the master
craftsman. Upon completion in 1766, it stood in a field some distance from the
growing port city to the south. It was built as a "chapel-of-ease" for
parishioners who lived far from the Mother Church.
Inside, the chapel's simple elegant hall has the pale colors, flat
ceiling and cut glass chandeliers reminiscent of contemporary domestic
interiors. In contrast to the awe-inspiring interior of Trinity Church, this
hall and its ample gallery were endowed with a cozy and comfortable character in
order to encourage attendance.

St. Patrick's Cathedral is the largest decorated Neo-Gothic-style
Catholic cathedral in North America. It is the seat of the archbishop of the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, and a parish church, located on Fifth
Avenue between 50th and 51st streets in Manhattan. It faces Rockefeller Center.

The Cathedral of New York's Catholic
Archdiocese and seat of its Cardinal, in its early years this elaborate building
served, among others, the working class, immigrant Catholic staff who were
employed by the city's Episcopalian elite. The Cathedral's Gothic Revival design
is based on French models. Somewhat generic in its form, it lacks the quaint
flavor of Grace and Trinity Churches and the mysterious grandeur of St. John the
Divine. A Lady Chapel, added to the Madison Avenue side of the Cathedral in
1906, is more impressive than the rest of the edifice. When construction began,
the Cathedral was located on the outskirts of town in an area of slaughter
houses and cattle yards. As construction progressed, the city advanced
northwards to the area around St. Patrick's. Nevertheless, the site remained
somewhat 'tainted' in the minds of 19th century New Yorkers.

The Cathedral of St. John the Divine, officially the Cathedral Church of
Saint John the Divine in the City and Diocese of New York, is the Cathedral of
the Episcopal Diocese of New York.

Located at 1047 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10025 (between West 110th
Street, which is also known as "Cathedral Parkway", and 113 Street) in
Manhattan's Morningside Heights, the cathedral is claimed to be the largest
cathedral and Anglican church and third largest Christian church in the world
(although the title is disputed with Liverpool Anglican Cathedral).

The cathedral, designed in 1888 and begun in 1892, has, in its history,
undergone radical stylistic changes and the interruption of the two World Wars.
It remains unfinished, with construction and restoration a continuing process.

The foundation stone of Goodhue's original design, a vast, unified
barrel-vaulted[5] space, without side aisles or chapels and with severely
reduced transepts, was laid 1 May 1917[6] and the construction was sufficiently
far along for the church to be consecrated in 1918; its design was altered
during construction, after Goodhue's sudden, unexpected death in 1924, by his
office associates, in partnership as Mayers, Murray and Philips; they were
engaged in erecting the community house, continuing with the same materials,
subtly variegated salmon and cream-colored bricks and creamy Indiana limestone;
they designed the terrace that still provides the equivalent of a small square,
surrounded by the cliff-like facades of Midtown commercial structures
(illustration, upper right); in summer, supplied with umbrellas and tables, it
becomes Café St. Bart's. They also inserted the "much discussed"[7] dome,
tile-patterned on the exterior and with a polychrome Hispano-Moresque interior
dome, which substituted for the spire that had been planned but never built.[8]
Completed in 1930, the church contains stained-glass windows and mosaics by
Hildreth Meiere, and a marble baptismal font by the Danish follower of Canova,
Bertel Thorvaldsen. St. Bartholomew's, completed by 1930 at a cost of
$5,400,000,[9] is one of the city's landmarks; for long of New York's wealthiest
parishes, St. Bart's is known for its wide range of programs. It draws
parishioners from all areas of New York City and its surroundings.

Located at 1 East 29th Street,in the Murray Hill District, the church is
set back from the street behind a garden creating a facsimile of the English
countryside in midtown Manhattan and has long been an oasis for New Yorkers of
all faiths who relax in the garden, pray in the chapel or enjoy free weekday
concerts in the main church. It has also been known as the "wedding church"
because of the popularity of the church for weddings.

The “Little Church Around the Corner,” was founded in 1848 “to embrace
all races and classes.” Designed in the early English Neo-Gothic style and with
its quaint English Garden retains a picturesque quality of a true English parish
church, despite being in sight of the Empire State Building. The church also
features numerous and eclectically designed side chapels and a 14th Century
stained glass window.

Marble Collegiate Church is a church of the Reformed Church in America
located at Fifth Avenue and Twenty-Ninth Street in New York City. It is the
oldest continuous Protestant congregation in the United States; It was founded
in 1628 as the Collegiate Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, and was part of the
Calvinist Dutch Reformed Church.

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale was Pastor there for fifty years from the
mid-1930s. The present Pastor is Dr. Arthur Caliandro.

The construction of the present church
building was due, in large part, to the contributions of Thomas Fortune Ryan and
his wife. Ryan, a devout and wealthy man of unassuming ways, preferred St.
Jean's to the large and showy parishes near his Fifth Avenue home, and the
Blessed Sacrament Fathers served as his wife's private chaplains at the Ryan's
country home in Suffern, New York. One day he arrived late for mass and found
that there was standing room only. At the conclusion of the service, he
approached the officiating priest and asked how much it would cost to build a
new church. The priest answered, apparently off the top of his head, "$300,000."
Ryan replied, "Get some plans and I will pay for it."

The new church, completed in 1913, was designed by Nicholas Serracino in
the Italian Baroque style, with a massive, freestanding Corinthian portico, twin
bell towers, and a magnificent dome over the crossing of the nave and transepts.
The total cost was close to $600,000, but both the patron and the parish were
apparently quite satisfied with the result, as we still are today.

The church has always stood on Fifth Avenue,
but originally much further south on E45th Street intersection. It was founded
by a group
of Civil War veterans in 1865. The present site on the eastern side
of Central Park was acquired from Mrs Andrew Carnegie. The foundation
stone was laid in 1926 and the church held its first service in 1929. The
architect was Bertram Goodhue but he had died in 1924 so his plans
were executed by Hardie Phillip (of Mayers, Murray & Phillip). It is a
modernised Gothic style, almost Art Deco in some features, with a shimmering
facade of limestone with large Geometric four light window above a double
portal. Flanking this are two turrets, like miniature towers.

"Carrère & Hastings's evocation of the low
church architecture of Georgian London and New England set the tone for many
subsequent Christian Science churches throughout the northeast. Carrère &
Hastings achieved a remarkable sense of solidity not only through the blocky
composition, inspired by the English Mannerist architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, but
also through the use of extremely large blocks of a white Concord granite, a
stone so hard that it shattered mechanical saws and had to be cut by hand.
Inside, the church was less distinctly English in feeling. A gallery wrapped
around three sides of the auditorium, and barrel vaults sprang from piers which
barely cleared the galleries, creating a powerfully encompassing effect. The
room was largely undecorated, except for an elaborate organ case and rich Modern
French plasterwork on the ceiling, which also contained roundels of concealed
lighting. Supported above the auditorium arches were the church's offices,
reading rooms and extensive Sunday school facilities. Clearly expressed on the
exterior, their location reflected a unique solution to the problem of the
parochial complex. Owen R. Washburn was correct in his assessment for the
Architectural Record: "if we may not speak of a cathedral, in this case, we
surely possess the metropolitan church."

Judson Memorial Church is a particularly stately edifice, at the south
side of Washington Square. The church building, designed by renowned architect
Stanford White, and stained glass master John La Farge, features Italian
Renaissance influences wedded to a basic Italianate form. It features notable
examples of scagliola, a very convincing handcrafted imitation of marble made of
highly polished pigmented plaster. Sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens designed a
marble frieze in the baptistery. Overall, the exterior and shape of Judson
Memorial is said to resemble Santa Maria, a basilica in Rome, while the entrance
is said to be inspired by the Renaissance church San Alessandro, built in Lucca
in 1480. The church is a national landmark.

This Baptist Church was funded in large part
by John D. Rockefeller Jr., whose wealthy family often used building endowments
to cement their position in New York society and American politics. Built in the
French Gothic style, the elaborate form of the church and its fine materials
(such as stained glass) are at odds with the simple, pared-down style that
normally characterizes Baptist ecclesiastical architecture. With an interior
based on the Chartres Cathedral, the design shows off the Rockefellers' ability
to straddle European and American building traditions. Modeled on Laon
Cathedral, the church's bell tower is actually a 21-story steel-frame high-rise.
Its enormous size all but overwhelms the nave beyond.

"The Bowery" was Dutch governor Peter
Stuyvesant's farm, and his private chapel used to stand on this site--making
this the oldest site of continuous worship in Manhattan. This church was erected
1795-99-- one of the few surviving 18th Century structures in Manhattan--with a
Greek revival steeple added 1828 and an Italianate portico completing the
structure in 1854.

Originally a church of Manhattan's elite, St
Marks became a progressive force in the neighborhood both socially and
culturally. Supportive of immigrant, labor and civil rights, the church
was a meetingplace for Black Panthers and Young Lords, and launched the
first lesbian healthcare clinic.

Poets like W.H. Auden (who was a
parishoner), William Carlos Williams, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Amy
Lowell, Carl Sandburg, Kahlil Gibran, Allen Ginsberg, Patti Smith and
Jim Carroll have all read here; since 1966, the St Marks Poetry Project
has organized poetry events. The Danspace project has featured dance
legends like Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham. Sam
Shepherd's first two plays were produced here, and Andy Warhol screened
his early films.

7 State Street (between Pearl and Whitehall Sts) 1793-1806, eastern
portion architect unknown; the western half attributed to James McComb, Jr.
architect Although a contemporary building, the shrine was designed in the
Georgian Style to match the adjacent Watson House. This small chapel is
dedicated to Elizabeth Seton, the founder of the Catholic order of Sisters of
Charity, who was canonized in 1975. A close comparison of the Shrine with the
Watson House reveals the material, technical and stylistic differences between
the 18th century residence and its historicist 20th century neighbor.
Once home of wealthy merchant James B. Watson, this typical Federal
Style rowhouse is the only extant residence in this area. Like other merchants
of 18th and early 19th century New York City, Watson chose to live near the
river in order to have an unobstructed harbor view and to be in close proximity
to his shipping interests. The eastern portion (1793) which follows the line of
the street was executed by an unknown architect, while the curved western
portion (1806) has been attributed to the sophisticated architect, John McComb
Jr. Following the Civil War, the house was purchased by Irish immigrant
Charlotte Grace O'Brien to serve as the Mission of Our Lady of the Rosary, a
waystation for young immigrant girls.

Founded in 1808 at 40 Worth
Street in lower Manhattan, Abyssinian Baptist Church served as a home base for
both Reverend Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. and Jr. and played a major role in black
history. The cavernous Gothic and Tudor (Neo-Gothic ) structure replete with
imported stained-glass windows and an Italian marble pulpit was designed by
Charles W. Bolton in 1923. Known as the largest and best known black
congregation (weekly attendance numbers in the thousands) in the United States,
Abyssinian Baptist has a superb choir and sixty-seven rank organ.